Most cited papers in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
What are the most cited papers in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics?
The most cited paper in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics is "Laser Electron Accelerator" (T. Tajima, J. M. Dawson, 1979), with 4,718 citations. Next come "Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses" (3,902) and "Ignition and high gain with ultrapowerful lasers*" (3,041).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 786 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laser Electron Accelerator T. Tajima, J. M. Dawson · Physical Review Letters | 23 Jul 1979 | 4,718 |
| 2 | Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses Donna T. Strickland, Gerard A. Mourou · Optics Communications | Dec 1985 | 3,902 |
| 3 | Ignition and high gain with ultrapowerful lasers* M. Tabak, J. H. Hammer, Michael E. Glinsky et al. · Physics of Plasmas | May 1994 | 3,041 |
| 4 | Intense few-cycle laser fields: Frontiers of nonlinear optics Thomas Brabec, Ferenc Krausz · Reviews of Modern Physics | Apr 2000 | 3,003 |
| 5 | Consequences of anomalous ward identities Jane A. Wess, Bruno Zumino · Physics Letters B | Nov 1971 | 2,910 |
| 6 | FLASH: An Adaptive Mesh Hydrodynamics Code for Modeling Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes Bruce A. Fryxell, K. Olson, P. M. Ricker et al. · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | Nov 2000 | 2,585 |
| 7 | Physics of laser-driven plasma-based electron accelerators Eric H. Esarey, Carl B. Schroeder, Wim P. Leemans · Reviews of Modern Physics | 27 Aug 2009 | 2,578 |
| 8 | Development of the indirect-drive approach to inertial confinement fusion and the target physics basis for ignition and gain John D. Lindl · Physics of Plasmas | Nov 1995 | 2,556 |
| 9 | A laser–plasma accelerator producing monoenergetic electron beams Jérôme Faure, Y. Glinec, Alexander Pukhov et al. · Nature | Sep 2004 | 2,129 |
| 10 | Potential for biomolecular imaging with femtosecond X-ray pulses Richard Neutze, R. Wouts, David van der Spoel et al. · Nature | 17 Aug 2000 | 2,044 |
| 11 | High-quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator using plasma-channel guiding C. G. R. Geddes, Csaba Tóth, Jeroen van Tilborg et al. · Nature | Sep 2004 | 2,003 |
| 12 | Monoenergetic beams of relativistic electrons from intense laser–plasma interactions Stuart P. D. Mangles, C. D. Murphy, Z. Najmudin et al. · Nature | Sep 2004 | 1,985 |
| 13 | Relaxation of Toroidal Plasma and Generation of Reverse Magnetic Fields John Bryan Taylor · Physical Review Letters | 4 Nov 1974 | 1,880 |
| 14 | Phase retrieval and differential phase-contrast imaging with low-brilliance X-ray sources Franz Pfeiffer, Timm Weitkamp, Oliver Bunk et al. · Nature Physics | 26 Mar 2006 | 1,869 |
| 15 | Optics in the relativistic regime Gerard A. Mourou, Toshiki Tajima, S. V. Bulanov · Reviews of Modern Physics | 28 Apr 2006 | 1,857 |
| 16 | The physics basis for ignition using indirect-drive targets on the National Ignition Facility John D. Lindl, Peter Amendt, Richard L. Berger et al. · Physics of Plasmas | 24 Jan 2004 | 1,847 |
| 17 | Absorption of ultra-intense laser pulses Scott C. Wilks, W. L. Kruer, M. Tabak et al. · Physical Review Letters | 31 Aug 1992 | 1,841 |
| 18 | Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers Tenio Popmintchev, Ming-Chang Chen, Dimitar Popmintchev et al. · Science | 7 Jun 2012 | 1,830 |
| 19 | Phase-contrast imaging using polychromatic hard X-rays Stephen W. Wilkins, Timur E. Gureyev, Dongjie Gao et al. · Nature | Nov 1996 | 1,765 |
| 20 | Extremely high-intensity laser interactions with fundamental quantum systems A. Di Piazza, Carsten Müller, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics | 16 Aug 2012 | 1,752 |
| 21 | Energetic proton generation in ultra-intense laser–solid interactions Scott C. Wilks, A. B. Langdon, T. E. Cowan et al. · Physics of Plasmas | Feb 2001 | 1,731 |
| 22 | Isolated Single-Cycle Attosecond Pulses G. Sansone, E. Benedetti, Francesca Calegari et al. · Science | 19 Oct 2006 | 1,718 |
| 23 | GeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator Wim P. Leemans, Bob Nagler, Anthony J. Gonsalves et al. · Nature Physics | 24 Sep 2006 | 1,717 |
| 24 | Intense High-Energy Proton Beams from Petawatt-Laser Irradiation of Solids Richard A. Snavely, M. H. Key, Stephen P. Hatchett et al. · Physical Review Letters | 2 Oct 2000 | 1,706 |
| 25 | Attosecond control of electronic processes by intense light fields Andrius Baltuška, Th. Udem, Matthias Uiberacker et al. · Nature | 5 Feb 2003 | 1,656 |
| 26 | Contemporary particle-in-cell approach to laser-plasma modelling T. D. Arber, Keith E. Bennett, C. S. Brady et al. · Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion | 10 Sep 2015 | 1,640 |
| 27 | Single-cycle nonlinear optics. Eleftherios Goulielmakis, M Schultze, M Hofstetter et al. · PubMed | 20 Jun 2008 | 1,622 |
| 28 | Physical study of laser-produced plasma in confined geometry R. Fabbro, Jean–Yves Fournier, Patrick Ballard et al. · Journal of Applied Physics | 15 Jul 1990 | 1,527 |
| 29 | On the possibilities of x-ray phase contrast microimaging by coherent high-energy synchrotron radiation Anatoly A. Snigirev, Irina I. Snigireva, Victor G. Kohn et al. · Review of Scientific Instruments | Dec 1995 | 1,489 |
| 30 | Ion acceleration by superintense laser-plasma interaction Andrea Macchi, M. Borghesi, M. Passoni · Reviews of Modern Physics | 10 May 2013 | 1,482 |
| 31 | Plasma-material interactions in current tokamaks and their implications for next step fusion reactors G. Federici, Charles H. Skinner, J.N. Brooks et al. · Nuclear Fusion | Dec 2001 | 1,377 |
| 32 | The formation of a blast wave by a very intense explosion I. Theoretical discussion Geoffrey Ingram Taylor · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 22 Mar 1950 | 1,373 |
| 33 | Fast Ignition by Intense Laser-Accelerated Proton Beams M. Roth, T. E. Cowan, Michael H. Key et al. · Physical Review Letters | 15 Jan 2001 | 1,347 |
| 34 | Self-channeling of high-peak-power femtosecond laser pulses in air Alexandra Braun, G. Korn, Xiaohong Liu et al. · Optics Letters | 1995 | 1,331 |
| 35 | Ionization in the field of a strong electromagnetic wave Leonid V. Keldysh · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks | Nov 2023 | 1,320 |
| 36 | Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction of ultrashort optical pulses Chris Iaconis, Ian A. Walmsley · Optics Letters | 15 May 1998 | 1,296 |
| 37 | Time-dependent propagation of high energy laser beams through the atmosphere J. A. Fleck, J. R. Morris, Michael D. Feit · Applied Physics A | Jun 1976 | 1,286 |
| 38 | Overview of plasma-based accelerator concepts Eric H. Esarey, Phillip A. Sprangle, J. Krall et al. · IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science | Apr 1996 | 1,237 |
| 39 | Fluid dynamics of relativistic blast waves Roger D. Blandford, Christopher F. McKee · The Physics of Fluids | Aug 1976 | 1,223 |
| 40 | Origin of the heavy elements in binary neutron-star mergers from a gravitational-wave event Daniel Kasen, Brian D. Metzger, Jennifer Barnes et al. · Nature | 16 Oct 2017 | 1,219 |
| 41 | X-ray phase imaging with a grating interferometer Timm Weitkamp, Ana Díaz, Christian Dávid et al. · Optics Express | 8 Aug 2005 | 1,212 |
| 42 | Precession of the Polarization of Particles Moving in a Homogeneous Electromagnetic Field V. Bargmann, Louis Michel, V. L. Telegdi · Physical Review Letters | 15 May 1959 | 1,207 |
| 43 | Laser wake field acceleration: the highly non-linear broken-wave regime Alexander Pukhov, Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn · Applied Physics B | Apr 2002 | 1,184 |
| 44 | An overview of Rayleigh-Taylor instability David H. Sharp · Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena | Jul 1984 | 1,172 |
| 45 | DL_POLY_3: new dimensions in molecular dynamics simulations via massive parallelism Ilian T. Todorov, William R. Smith, Kostya Trachenko et al. · Journal of Materials Chemistry | 2006 | 1,164 |
| 46 | A constitutive model for metals applicable at high-strain rate Daniel J. STEINBERG, Steve Cochran, Michael W. Guinan · Journal of Applied Physics | Mar 1980 | 1,156 |
| 47 | Electron temperature gradient driven turbulence F. Jenko, W. Dorland, Mike Kotschenreuther et al. · Physics of Plasmas | May 2000 | 1,133 |
| 48 | Ablation of metals by ultrashort laser pulses Stefan Nolte, Carsten Momma, Harold Jacobs et al. · Journal of the Optical Society of America B | Oct 1997 | 1,130 |
| 49 | Anomalous Ward Identities in Spinor Field Theories William A. Bardeen · Physical Review | 25 Aug 1969 | 1,107 |
| 50 | Physics of shock waves and high-temperature hydrodynamic phenomena S.S. Penner · Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer | 2003 | 1,093 |
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